Thursday, April 16, 2009

A Shot in the Dark

Good golly, I've got to teach my husband how to give me an IM shot.

The Delestrogen. Of course I'll handle the SQ Lupron. When I learned that the Delestrogen was IM, I thought, hm, how to do that? The Clinic quickly said, "Oh, your husband can learn to give them to you."

My husband? Surely they were joking. My husband grimaces and can't watch when they show a "murdered body" on the TV show Bones or one of those CSI shows. He can barely withstand hearing the word "blood."

Oh, and did I mention he has a purpose tremor?

I thought, having him try to do this could be dangerous....for both of us. I told the Clinic I'd have our monitoring clinic give me the twice weekly shots.

Then I read the literature and discovered that the shots had to continue into 12 weeks of a pregnancy (I'm being hopeful, see?) Twelve weeks?! I can't drive to the clinic twice a week for 12 weeks just to get a shot.

"Honey," I said, "You gotta give me these shots." I told him why. Surprisingly, he was willing. "Okay," he said, "If I have to, I have to."

So I'm going to teach him. Did I mention that I was a registered nurse in a previous life? All those years are going to come in handy.

I'm going to the grocery store to buy some meat, I'm going to tie it to a plate or cutting board, and I'm going to have him practice injecting that meat with water over and over and over.

According to my calendar, we should start the Delestrogen around the second week of May. By then, Honey will be a pro and my behind should just look like another slab of meat to him.

Wondering if there's a reason you need to take your estrogen IM? I'm nearly 6 weeks pregnant with donor embryos, and I've only used oral estrogen. I take 4 mg orally 3 times a day. My lining was great with just that.

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I am a 43 year old health law attorney who used to be a pediatric nurse. My husband and I have been married for 3 1/2 years and we have 2 wiley little dogs. After 2 miscarriages and several BFN's, embryo donation has allowed us to be on our way to becoming parents.